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Chapter 1368: Chapter 1370: Serum Chapter 1368: Chapter 1370: Serum For a moment, as if pierced by a thousand blades, dozens of Spirit Swords penetrated the mutated crocodile monster’s body, then flew out from behind. Meanwhile, Song Jian, who had been rushing toward it, stopped in his tracks in time, causing the mutated crocodile beast, which had been ready to clash with him, to reveal a look of astonishment on its face.

While the mutated crocodile beast was momentarily stunned, dozens of Spirit Swords drew arcs in the air under Song Jian’s control, continuing to fly toward the monster from behind.

Just one attack had caused the mutated crocodile monster’s Vitality Points to drop rapidly, visible to the naked eye. The damage from the Spirit Swords accounted for one aspect, while the monster’s significantly reduced defense accounted for another.

Originally, each Spirit Sword could only inflict around three thousand points of damage; adding the burning damage from the “blazing fire,” it would total just over five thousand. But on the mutated crocodile monster, each Spirit Sword could deal seven or eight thousand points of damage. With more than fifty swords, a single attack amounted to more than four hundred thousand points of damage, making Song Jian’s damage incomparable!

“If I can control Spirit Swords to attack, why would I engage in close combat with you?” A cold smile emerged on the corner of Song Jian’s mouth. His range of control over the Spirit Swords exceeded a kilometer; it was more than enough to kill the crocodile beast before him. If only his control was strong enough to unleash all the Spirit Swords at once, this mutated crocodile monster wouldn’t even withstand a single slash.

The main reason he had only summoned a little over fifty Spirit Swords was that Song Jian could control them as if they were an extension of his body. He attacked in any way he wished, from any angle he chose, and could even use some swords to form a Sword Formation, causing tremendous trouble for the mutated crocodile monster.

For a while, the mutated crocodile beast was completely suppressed. The room filled with its continuous roars and screams of agony, as numerous Spirit Swords, like a slow slicing execution, made the beast’s body spurt out streams of blood.

For Song Jian, this battle was much easier than before. Standing more than ten meters away from the mutated crocodile monster, he casually controlled the Spirit Swords to attack it, and the beast couldn’t touch him at all. Even when it tried to charge at him a few times, Song Jian forced it back with the Sword Formation.

The mutated crocodile monster, already low on Vitality Points, struggled feebly, its movements growing ever slower. When its Vitality Points dropped to one-fifth, its body began to emit a fierce glow, and waves of heat burst from it, its muscles expanding rapidly.

“Is, is it going to self-destruct?” A shock went through Song Jian, who quickly intensified his attacks. However, this time the Spirit Swords encountered resistance and could no longer pierce the mutated crocodile monster’s body with ease. As if in an instant, the monster’s body structure had changed again, and even its flesh had become as hard as steel.

Clang, clang, clang~
A series of metallic clashes and sparks flying, Song Jian couldn’t help but give up on continuing the attack, instead retreating.

The force of the self-destruction in such a confined space would be much greater than in an open area. Song Jian was even worried it would blow apart a section of the entire underground base. Whether it was the three vials of medicine set up in the room or the potential gains from meteorite fragments, any damage to them would be unacceptable to Song Jian.

Song Jian wanted to stop the mutated crocodile monster from self-destructing, but there was no way to do so. Its self-destruction was a preset mechanism and not under the monster’s control. From its shocked and desperate eyes, it was evident that not even the mutated crocodile monster knew it had the ability to self-destruct.

Boom~
A massive roar echoed throughout the room, but by then, Song Jian had already ducked out and was standing about forty to fifty meters away from the room.

After a violent shaking, the surroundings quieted down again. Song Jian waited a moment before striding towards the room where the mutated reptile beast had self-destructed.

Standing at the doorway, Song Jian smelled a strong odor of blood. Only upon entering did he find that the entire room’s walls were splattered with patches of dark brown bloodstains. The mutated reptile beast hadn’t even left a carcass behind–no, to say nothing of a carcass, there weren’t even any larger chunks of flesh or bones. It seemed that its body had turned entirely to blood at the moment of the explosion, spraying over an area of dozens of meters.

“Even not a single piece of loot has dropped?” After a meticulous search, Song Jian disappointingly found that this peak Sovereign-level Boss had indeed left behind not a single piece of loot, let alone a mutated organ that could improve the passage rating.

However, maybe because the mutated reptile beast’s explosion had damaged the defensive devices on the stone platform in the room, the thick light screen that had originally shrouded the surface of the stone platform vanished without a trace, leaving the three medicine vials within easy reach.

“Perhaps these are the spoils of war?” Song Jian guessed, stepping forward and picking up the three test tubes to examine them closely.

The liquid in these three sealed vials emitted a light as clear and transparent as rubies, and at first glance appeared to be blood. But upon closer inspection, the liquid was a hundred times clearer and purer than blood.

“Controllable Mutated Serum…” Song Jian carefully checked the attributes of the three tubes: “The property is to enhance biological potential, inducing beneficial mutations in the organism’s body; each creature is limited to using one tube, and excessive use will cause the creature’s genes to collapse!”

“This must be the research achievement of the researchers in this underground base. It’s a pity, though, who knows what happened to this underground base, making its people unable to take it with them even when they left!” Song Jian thought to himself. Yet considering the massive pile of bones in the underground base, it was likely that none of the staff made it out alive, all having perished here.

None of the items from the Assessment World can be taken out–they only contribute to the passage rating after the assessment ends. However, if they can be used during the assessment, the effects become inseparable. Just as now, if Song Jian doesn’t use these serums, they will improve the passage rating after he leaves the Assessment World. If he uses them now, the enhanced strength won’t be stripped away upon leaving.

Generally speaking, when faced with such a situation, examinees would use the items immediately, as nobody knows whether their examination will be successful. If one fails to complete the main quest, no matter how many precious items they have, they can’t improve their passage rating, because they haven’t passed! All items would vanish.

After some thought, Song Jian opened the pet battle interface and looked over at the Black Dragon. In the interface, a girl in a black gothic-style dress lay sprawling on the ground, sound asleep. Song Jian tried to summon her, but received a prompt that the pet was in an advanced sleep and could not be summoned.

“She’s already successfully advanced to Sovereign level; why is she still sleeping?” Song Jian’s brows furrowed after checking the Black Dragon’s attributes.

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